Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties.”

Copyright © 2012 Bob R Bogle



Whether you find Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” a delightfully entertaining exercise of intellect or simply a tedious bore will depend upon how much you know about James Joyce, Lenin and the art movement called Dadaism. At a recent performance of the production, now on stage at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, at least a quarter of the audience slipped out at intermission. On the other hand, those who stayed for the second act, seemed to be having a rollicking good time. 

My favorite part of the review:

“Travesties” is probably a little too clever for its own good. Stuffed with wordplay, puns and references, it’s inter-textual to the extreme, like an enormous in-joke for graduate students.

Yeah. . . .struck a chord.